Academic Research

The project aims to preserve and activate the private archive of the Bouanani family, a family devoted to cinema, film history, and cultural memory in Morocco. 
Ahmed Bouanani was a poet, writer, film editor, and director; Naïma Saoudi was a costume and set designer, director, actress, producer, scriptwriter, and assistant editor; and their daughter Batoul a dresser and costume designer. They left behind a large number of books, magazines, manuscripts, drawings, scripts, notes, posters, costumes, and accessories. Those objects testify not only to the life and work of the family but more broadly to the cultural history of Morocco, in particular the cultural and political dynamics of the 1960-1980s. 
Touda Bouanani, their daughter and sister, and herself a visual artist, continues the work of archiving and remembering Morocco's cultural and intellectual history, together with a collective of researchers, filmmakers, and artists. The project team takes inventory, preserves, and catalogs the archive in the family home in Rabat, digitizes the materials, and creates an archive platform that will open up further access possibilities and research perspectives. Along with preserving and archiving, research and artistic practices based on the archive also form part of the project, in search of new approaches, methods, and contemporary creation to keep the archive relevant today.

Advanced undergraduate students (from third year) 
Master's students 
Ph.D. students